What are the chances that you get, back to back, two films which expand and stretch the definition of a ‘documentary’? What makes people to do the things they do? Top News
South Africa beat India by six wickets, level series 1-1: As it happenedKamal Haasan party launch LIVE UPDATES: Makkal Needhi Maiam is 'for the people’Essential Phone 'Halo Gray' colour option launched with Amazon Alexa built-inWhat are the chances that you get, back to back, two films which expand and stretch the definition of a ‘documentary’? As do we. Underneath the skin and bones, who really, are we? 3 Tage in Quiberon (3 Days In Quiberon) is based on the events that take place during three days the mercurial Vienna-born actress Romy Schneider is holed up in a ‘spa’ in Quiberon. Utoya22-juli is a docu-feature, and you can see that the director being careful to state, in the end credits, that the events shown in the film are based on the recollections of the survivors: this is the kind of film which gives us both a strong sense of realism, and frees the director to use her imagination. Like all good films, 3 Days, a feature based on fact, compels you to ask the hard questions, and leads you to think. They are readying for a good time, when everything comes to a panicky halt, and then we follow Kaja’s gaze as she tries to make sense of what’s going on. That’s serendipity of a kind you can find only at a film festival. Utoya22.juli by Erik Poppe is a 72-minute recreation of a black day in Norway on July 22, 2011. Her young son died in a horrible accident, and it said that she was never the same again. The film gives us one character who is the most visible.